Gasquet, Francis Aidan (1846–1929)

English cardinal and historian. A Benedictine, he was prior of Downside Abbey, Somerset, 1878–85. He served as president of the papal commission for revision of the Vulgate from 1907 until his death, was cardinal deacon in 1914, prefect of the Vatican archives in 1917, librarian of the Holy Roman Church in 1919, and was made a cardinal priest in 1924. His many works on pre-Reformation monasticism in England are now largely superseded.

They include Henry VIII and the English Monasteries (1888–89), A Short History of the Catholic Church in England (1903), English Monastic Life (1903), The Greater Abbeys of England (1908), and Monastic Life in the Middle Ages (1922).